Opinion

Dear Editor: Many people say the NDP platform is "too idealistic." My issue with this stance is that you HAVE to have hope, and you HAVE to have vision in order to accomplish anything with purpose.

I recently chatted with NDP candidate Peter Julian and Green candidate Kyle Routledge about the value in attending all-candidates meetings at New Westminster Secondary School – where the majority of the students are too young to vote.

The Lower Mainland’s mayors, bless their hearts, are making another go of raising money for more TransLink infrastructure. This time, they’re looking into road pricing, a system of tolls based on distance driven, or on bridge or highway use.

Whatever the outcome of the Oct. 19 federal election, it seems likely the party that will see the greatest growth in votes and seats will be the Liberal Party of Canada.

Dear Editor Harper has increased our debt by 45 per cent: to $634 billion.

Dear Editor I’ve been in contact with the city regarding homeless people sleeping in doorways in uptown New West for the last two years. Two meetings with our strata council, police and city staff, and we’re still no further ahead.

Dear Editor In an average elementary school, there are likely five children suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In a medium to large high school, there are typically 20 students battling OCD.

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Dear Editor We are watching the final rounds of a marathon fight. The charismatic young upstart, Justin Trudeau, has the dour old champion, Stephen Harper, second-guessing himself.

What’s with the kids today? Plenty, but it seems voting is not something worth putting down Instagram and Snapchat for. Less than 39 per cent voted in 2011 and political scientists warn us that millennials could be democracy’s lost generation.